Buckminsterfullerene is a type of fullerene with the formula C60. It has a cage-like fused-ring. Buckyball may alo refer to: Truncated icosahedron . A fullerene is an allotrope of carbon in the form of a hollow sphere, ellipsoi tube , and many other shapes. Composed of carbon atoms formed in the shape of a hollow ball, buckyballs have, .
This past weeken British chemist Sir Harry Kroto passed away at the age of 76. He is the co-discoverer of buckyballs , a form of carbon that is . The simplest buckyball is the dodecahedron, consisting of pentagonal faces and no hexagonal ones. What is C6 when was it discovered.
A carbon atom sits at each vertex of a buckyball , bonding with three of its neighbors. Fullerenes are transparent over a wide spectral range extending from the . The most common types of spheroidal fullerenes, C60 . A buckminsterfullerene molecule (C60).
In the simplest buckyball there are carbon atoms with each atom covalently bonded to three adjacent atoms. The resultant sphere is around .